The Darkest Summer, Bill Sloan
The Darkest Summer, Bill Sloan
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The Darkest Summer
Pusan and Inchon 1950: The Battles That Saved South Korea---and the Marines---from Extinction

Author: Bill Sloan

Narrator: Michael Prichard

Unabridged: 14 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/02/2010

Synopsis

The outcome of the Korean War was decided in the first three months. The Darkest Summer is the hour-by-hour, casualty-by-casualty story of those months—a period that saw American and UN forces almost driven into the sea by the North Korean invaders, then stage an incredible turn-around that reversed the entire course of the war. Drawing on exclusive author interviews, unpublished memoirs, and oral histories, the book recounts the most dramatic and historically important portion of the war from the perspective of the soldiers and Marines on the ground. Bill Sloan takes the listener into muddy foxholes, across endless rice paddies, and up hotly contested ridges with the men who fought and fell there.

About Bill Sloan

Bill Sloan is renowned military historian and the author of more than a dozen books, including The Ultimate Battle and Brotherhood of Heroes. During his ten years as an investigative reporter and feature writer for the Dallas Times Herald, he covered many of the major events and personalities of the second half of the twentieth century and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He lives in Dallas, Texas.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Al on September 24, 2018

Bill Sloan writes in his own particular style which combines tactical, operational and strategic levels of a conflict. I felt here he bogged down in minutiae a little too much. Despite the title the book focuses not just on the Summer and McArthur’s most Brilliant Landing at Inchon, But also probabl......more

Goodreads review by Oliver on April 18, 2018

Interesting history of the first three months of the Korean conflict. What it makes clear is how close North Korea came to conquering the entire peninsula and how gritty fighting by the available Marine divisions helped stem the attack and set the stage for the Inchon landing. Also makes clear that......more

Goodreads review by Zinger on March 20, 2011

This book starts right in with a "view from the ground" of the beginning of the Korean War. You get a play by play report of what the men went through in this war. It also gives credit and praise to the Marine Corps for their roll in the early part of the conflict, that very well might have caused t......more

Goodreads review by LaMar on January 03, 2024

I am definitely a little biased as I have read three other books by Bill Sloan and find his work interesting, personal, engaging, and highly readable history. Most of his military history focuses on actions and engagements by units of the United States Marine Corps. Even though I have become very fa......more

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